Keonta Jenkins
Keonta Jenkins
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Four seasons at Virginia Tech, two different head coaches: J.C. Price and Brent Pry. The receipt: 10 tackles against Syracuse — Week 10, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
- positional archetype classification
- head-coach lineage
- game log
How it ended
Four seasons at Virginia Tech, 172 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career Arc
2025 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
Splits & context
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
James Franklin
Awards
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.
Career stats
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Virginia Tech | 65 | 38 | 9.5 | 1.0 | 4 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech | 48 | 28 | 9.0 | 1.5 | -- | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Virginia Tech | 42 | 24 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Virginia Tech | 17 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 172 | 102 | 20.5 | 2.5 | 9 | 3 | -- |
Signature game
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2024
W 31–14
vs Marshall
4 SOLO · 5 TOT · 1 TFL
How he plays
Play style
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
CFB Index positional classification
DNA match
Player DNA
Coverage 'Backer
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Luke Pirris’s 2023 season.
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As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Kain Medrano's graduate season at UCLA (2024).
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